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Contact information for Councilmember Joyce Clark
Home: 623-772-9795
Cell: 602-320-3422
Office: 623-930-2249
Please call between the hours of 9 AM - 5 PM
Email:
clarkjv@aol.com
jclark@glendaleaz.com
Joyce Clark is a 49 year resident of Glendale. She has a BA in History and Education and graduated from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Her past careers include teacher of high school history, small business ownership of a book store, a professional ceramist and was the founder of a retail craft gallery. Joyce and her husband, Charles, have three children and seven grandchildren.

Joyce was first elected as your Yucca district Councilmember in 1992 and served Glendale and the Yucca district from 1992 to 1996. Joyce took a four year break from public service when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s to personally care for her. In 2000 she successfully ran again for Yucca district councilmember as a write in candidate against the incumbent. She is the only candidate in Arizona to achieve a write in victory over an incumbent. She was your voice for the Yucca district for 16 years.

Joyce retired in December, 2012, and as a private citizen Joyce did many of the things she never had the time to pursue. Two of those are the tender care and feeding of her koi pond and blog writing on issues in Glendale, Arizona.

In March of 2016, Joyce announced that she would leave retirement and run for the Yucca district council seat in Glendale. Once again Joyce defeated an incumbent and on December 13, 2016 she took office as the Yucca district councilmember for another four year term, ending in December of 2020.

Joyce is the only elected official in the State of Arizona to have defeated an incumbent as a write-in candidate and then to defeat a second, different incumbent as a candidate.

Ladies, this one’s for us. Christmas is so very close to losing its real meaning – a celebration of the birth of Christ. If you believe and accept this ideology it is becoming more and more difficult to hold this premise in your heart. Today one must make a conscious effort to ground oneself when advertising for Christmas goodies now hits the air waves before Halloween. I, like everyone else, have been sucked by the retail world into decorating my home, baking goodies and worst of all — the buying of Christmas presents.

But we are being scammed by the retail world. Yes, I know, 70% of their annual sales revenue is earned during this season. They become positively rabid vying for your dollar during this season. Here’s the scam – jack up the prices so that when they are marked down the universe of customers will believe they are actually getting a deal. What is not realized is that even with so-called mark downs retailers continue to earn an unhealthy profit. Do people realize that this is the scam and don’t care? Or do people really, really believe they are getting a deal?

This year’s Christmas tree

Case in point. Disclaimer: I have a Kitchen Aid mixer so I am not in the market for one but for some strange reason I always check the price on this item and I am not picking on Macy’s. Macy’s has the mixer marked down as a “door buster” to $199.00, regularly $279.00. OMG, great price, no? No, it’s not. I have seen it as low as $179.00 during the course of a year and even at that price, it’s overpriced.

Handmade ornament40 years old

That great deal you saw on TV or in the paper is not really a great deal. Everything is overpriced and insures the retailer not just a reasonable profit but an extremely healthy profit at our expense. The real deal is wholesale and unless you know a friend of a friend you won’t be paying that price. So, remember as you shop this season you are a victim of the “Yo-Yo Effect.”

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Sears has used this marketing strategy for decades. Rarely does anyone sell for the actual “retail” price. Sears always made it known their prices were saving you loads of money, off a price they never intended to sell it for.

Same goes with the liquidation companies who take over a business going under and put up the big signs everywhere showing “markdowns” of 10-30% over “regular prices” when in many cases those initial prices are actually higher than what the item sold for prior to the business going under. Because the “regular price” is actually a “retail price”

And let’s lot forget the old “lowest price of the season” promotion….. I’m still trying to figure out what “season” means.